5/29/2012

Patrick Boggs Jr. of the Akron/Kent area, has recently been outed online as a neo-Nazi.
Patrick has a New Saxon account and an active white supremacist presence, writing poetry for incarcerated White Nationalists. We found record of his stint in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison, where there was an eleven day riot in 1993 executed by an unlikely alliance between the Aryan Brotherhood and Gangster Disciples, though not much info could be recovered on the exact conviction or sentence.

Patrick has some connection with Kyle Rogers, one of those heading the antifa witch-hunt with Scott Ernest (mjodr) on Twitter, Facebook, and the Tinley Park 5 legal support page, and attempting to cut ties with pedophile Steven Eugene Speers by claiming he was a mole for ARA.

Here's an excellent article we recently found in a few month old issue
of a Columbus DIY publication, specifically pertaining to tokenization
and racism perpetuated by people in the city's music scene. Though the
intent is to point out very specific personal things that the author saw
with their own eyes, we think it overlaps into the things we may see
and deal with on a daily basis outside of the milieux we each find
ourselves a part of.

Columbus Is Racist
Because You’re Racist: Shit I’ve Seen You Do

By: Eimhin Avast

For all intents and purposes, this is a collaborative effort
to point out really fucked up racist stuff that has been seen and heard in the
Columbus punk scene. Get your shit together, dudes.

In order to protect the identity of certain individuals, I
tried my best to not use specifics when vaguely describing situations involving
people of color.

Not all people of
color look alike.

This is different than hanging out with a big group of
people and accidentally addressing one of your friends when you meant to ask
another a question.

The most common root cause of this stems from simply not
knowing people. Perhaps someone in the scene tells you a story about someone
you don’t know, and when you ask who they are, they say “Oh, you know, they’re
black.” A few days later, you’re at a show and find yourself in a conversation
with someone you’ve never met, and, without hesitation, you assume that this
person of color is the same person your friend told you a story about.

This is racist for a few reasons:

1.Your friend’s only description of this person
was their skin color. We live in a world where white and white-passing people
get the privilege of being described by their hair color, their stature, their
body type, even their bike or their back patch. Even when people of color are
described in this way, it includes their skin color. You might hear “the big
black dude with a Crucifix backpatch”, but you’ll never hear more than “the
dude with the Vitamin X shirt” when describing a white person. This is because
whiteness is seen as normal, as the standard, in society. Anything different
has to be described and listed as an “other”.

2.You assumed there was only one person of color
involved in the scene whom you’d yet to meet. It’s not an exaggeration to say
that CSBYS is heavily saturated with white kids, but it is an exaggeration to pretend that there’s only one or two people
of color involved. It’s also pretty clear that the Columbus scene is changing
and growing. This plays into that “white as normal” society shit. Don’t do it.

Yelling “white power”
isn’t funny.

And there’s a reason people react negatively to you when you
do this. I mean, come on. Don’t you see that you’re negatively reinforcing a
system of domination and white supremacy that people of color already have to
deal with on a daily basis?

Skrewdriver and other
white power bands are not acceptable party music.

It’s never okay to
use racial slurs. Not even if you replace the “er” with an “a”, and not even if
your “black friends said [you] could”.

Louis CK says that saying “the n word” instead of the actual
word is like making someone else say it in their mind. On the other hand, Jay-Z
said in an interview that white people should just call his 2011 song with
Kanye “Paris”.

Let’s play a game: Next time you think of a derogatory term
used for any non-white ethnicity or non-Christian religious group, try and see
how long you can go without using it. I bet you could go years… Maybe even the
rest of your life!

Tokenizing or
fetishizing someone for their nationality or ethnicity is trashy.

Don’t assume someone knows everything about the country
their family originated from. Don’t mention how much you like Yau’s to a
Japanese girl. Don’t talk about how much you love [insert ethnic group here]’s
style, spirituality, struggles and/or resistance movement, etc. Don’t hit on
someone in ways that make light of perceived or known histories, race,
cultures, and all that other shit you probably read about on Wikipedia.

Don’t assume that
just because “white American culture” is a monolithic being that other
continents or countries are the same way.

In the same way “European culture” isn’t a term that can be
used to distinguish all the people in Europe (think how different Spain and
Ireland are from one another, or Germany and Italy, for instance), there is no
such thing as “Native American culture”, “African culture”, “Asian culture”, or
“South and/or Central American culture”. Each of these places consists of
dynamic regions and groups of people, with hundreds to thousands of individual
cultures, traditions, and religions. Obviously the most laughable of these
examples is “African culture”: IT’S AN ENTIRE CONTINENT!

Pro-tips:

1.There are indigenous cultures as well as white
Europeans in Mexico.

2.There are 510 federally recognized Native
American tribes in the United States, even more which aren’t federally
recognized, and even even more First Nations tribes in Canada.

3.Africa is home to white, black, and brown
people, including the indigenous Amazigh of Northern Africa, who sometimes pass
as Arab or white.

4.There are 48 countries in Asia, which is split
into Central (Kazakhstan, etc.), East, North, Southwest, South (India), and
West (Middle East) Asia, and comprises 60% of the Earth’s population. There are
more than 1300 languages spoken in Asia, with 415 of those in India alone,
along with diverse cultures, traditions, and foods in each territory, country,
and region.

Come on, don’t ask
someone where they’re “from” when you know damn well they’re from Ohio.

This isn’t a coy way to find out what ethnicity someone is,
it’s all too common racism.

You’re not a “victim”
because of your white skin.

Nothing erases your white privilege. As a white person, you
have the comfort of knowing that you won’t be shot by a racist cop or
blockwatcher because of the color of your skin. You’re also less likely to be
followed at Walgreens, whether or not you’re stealing. You’re less likely to be
stopped and searched by CCP, CPD, and other law enforcement officers. You’re
more likely to get a job, more likely to be given extra help and lenience in a
classroom setting, and more likely to be acknowledged for accomplishments
within institutionalized settings. You’ll get less time in jail for more
serious crimes than offenders of color, and you’ll never have to deal with any
of the shit in this article.

5/26/2012

After several failed Ddos attacks, if you can call them that, against the ARA network site and the Arch City and Southside blogs, antifa hackers contacted us with news of another victory: Beckie Williams had been thoroughly hacked! In an email sent to ARA chapters yesterday evening, the hackers claimed to have access to Beckie's email, Stormfront, and Skype accounts. Here is the raw data of everything scraped from her private messages with other fascists and racists.

Earlier
today we received an email sent from anti-fascists hackers who claimed
to have accessed the skype, yahoo and stormfront account of Beckie
Williams, the organizer of the white nationalist economic summit
recently smashed down in Tinley Park. The hack not only reveals Beckie's
info, such as address and ID#, but there are several interesting
conversations in relation to the aftermath of the confrontation. There
is also plenty of private messages filled with white nationalists
conspiring to take down our site including someone who seems to be
responsible for the hack on the south side ARA blog.

Much like Beckie's poor security at the recent Ashford House attacks,
Beckie also has poor internet security. Several hours ago we managed,
and with much ease, to break in to her email, Stormfront and Skype
accounts.

Posted below is Beckie's personal info including her home address and
phone number. This release also includes tons of info on multiple
attendees of the white nationalist Economic summit, info on other WN
associates of Beckie, and plenty of embarrassing private conversations.
One conversation included in this release features Brandon Spiller
walking people on Stormfront through a step-by-step process on how to
Ddos a website, in preparation to attack antiracistaction.org.

----
Sile, Michael Gull, Brandon Spiller, and Beckie Williams talking about
Brandon's semi-failed Ddos attack, his police report (which he lied on),
and plans for retaliation, as well as police treatment and Brandon
weighing so much he broke the first stretcher they put him on:
----

[5/22/12 12:06:50 AM] Dres. . . .: By "local' we are dealing with a
detective who dealt with me and copperhead, mostly and then scotty, who
had also headed up the sniper team to defend the Nato people, so he was
pretty pissed about this, as he was supposed to have off for doing such a
good job, and then this happenned and he wound up being on that for at
least as long as we were awake and dealing with it, He wasn't very
happy about that at all
[5/22/12 12:06:51 AM] Sgathaich: It has been interesting....
[5/22/12 12:07:00 AM] Brandon Spiller: I sent mine off an hour ago to the people who contacted me and let Beckie read it
[5/22/12 12:07:30 AM] Sgathaich: I felt Brandons' statement was well put.
[5/22/12 12:07:31 AM] Sile Storm: well, it think it is important to wordsmith any statements
[...]
[5/22/12 12:25:51 AM] Brandon Spiller: they had me on 2 backboards because they broke the first one lifting me lol

5/23/2012

We got an anonymous tip on this white supremacist from a concerned member of the public near Lorain, Ohio. Thirty-six year old Alan Ivan lives between Lorain and Amherst in northwest Ohio. The garage of his self-owned auto shop sports a nazi flag, a "White Pride World Wide" banner, and a confederate flag. Group affiliation is uncertain, but we do know that he works as a pastor at a Church of the Living God church in either Cleveland or Akron and has far right wing political views.

5/22/2012

Saturday May 19, 2012 five antifascists were arrested in Tinley Park, a
Chicago Suburb, for allegedly assaulting a number of white-supremacist
organizers. Help us raise funds for their support and costly legal
defense. One of the alleged "victims" was arrested on warrants for child pornography and another was arrested for possessing a firearm as a
convicted felon. Bond has been set at nearly $1 Million dollars for the
alleged attackers. Legal funds are needed in order to secure adequate
legal representation and ensure that their families are taken care of
until they are released.

Bail is collectively set at $925k, $250k for one defendant, $200k for another, and $175k each for the remaining three arrestees; a legal fund has been set up in defense of those arrested.

Steven currently lives in Grand Forks, ND, but has lived in Garland, TX, Chipley and Defuniak Springs, FL, and Shelton, WA. Steven Eugene Speers was transferred almost immediately to the Cook County Sherrif's Fugitive Division, and will probably be behind bars for quite awhile.

Francis John Gilroy Jr. of Lighthouse Point and West Palm Beach, FL was also picked up for unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon. He was described by police and arrest records as a transient, and he may live with his 80-year-old parents, Francis John Sr. and Joyce Gilroy at their home in Jupiter, Florida.

More info on Gilroy to come. It is unclear yet but probable that Speers and Gilroy may have associated prior to the White Nationalist Economic Summit in Tinley Park, given their shared views and ties to the state of Florida.

Outcomes like this are important for actualizing our goals and stances as antifascists (and clearly follows along ARA's Points of Unity) because it makes the connections between those things we oppose ever more clear. National Socialism, fascism, and white supremacy have had always had very definite ties to instances of spousal and child abuse, sexual assault, and other acts of violence against oppressed groups outside of the realm of racism.

The correlations between these instances of abuse and assault are not isolated, and span the entirety of hate groups like those that met on May 19th at the Ashford House Restaurant. We will not stop exposing neo-Nazis, fascists, and white supremacists (and, consequently, abusive partners and parents, pedophiles, child molesters, and perpetrators of sexual assault), ever; we intend to win!

5/20/2012

According to internet sources, antifascists, numbering near 30, entered
the Ashford House restaurant around noon on May 19th where the "5th
annual white nationalist economic summit" meeting was being held. The
antifascists were allegedly throwing bats, hammers and chairs, leaving
multiple white supremacists hospitalized and successfully bringing the
meeting to a brutal end.

On Saturday, May 19th a group of 30 anti-fascists descended upon Ashford
House restaurant in the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park where the 5th
annual White Nationalist Economic Summit and Illinois White Nationalist
Meet-and-Greet was taking place. The White Nationalists were targeted
inside the restaurant and physically attacked, causing several injuries
and completely shutting down their meeting. The anti-fascist group was
privy to anonymous inside information. This fascist event had been in
secret planning for six months. The attendees have attempted to cover up
the true intent of the event with mainstream media reports initially
reporting the white nationalist conference as a wedding party and then
as an Irish heritage meeting. The event was advertised on
www.stormfront.org, an established white nationalist fascist internet
forum.

Anti-fascists oppose any organizing by
racists and fascists in their communities. Fascists and white nationalist
organizing has resulted in a number of horrifying incidents, from the
recent J.T. Ready shootings in Arizona to the Benjamin Nathaniel Smith shooting in the West Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago, as just two examples.

These anti-fascists are committed to
shutting down and attacking any racist, nationalist, or fascist
organizers or individuals that they encounter.